H.M.S. Radstock (1916)

H.M.S. Radstock (1916)
Pendant Number:	G.79 (1916) G.76 (Jan 1917) G.81 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	Swan Hunter
Ordered:	May 1915 (6th Order)
Launched:	3 Jun, 1916
Completed:	Sep, 1916
Sold:	29 Apr, 1927

H.M.S. Radstock was one of 62 destroyers of the "R" class.

Service

Radstock was assigned to the new Fifteenth Destroyer Flotilla in September, 1916, though the fighting strength was initially just she and flotilla leader Parker!

She re-commissioned with reduced Complement on 15 October, 1919.

Following an earlier round of a flotilla leader and seventeen destroyers, Radstock was named as one of an additional fifteen destroyers to be scrapped in the fiscal year starting 1 April, 1926.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Richard M. King, 25 August, 1916 – 6 May, 1918
• Commander Richard M. King, June, 1918 – 11 February, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Hamilton E. Snepp, 11 February, 1919 – August, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Horace Walker, 1 October, 1919 – 3 October, 1921
• Lieutenant-Commander Edward T. W. Church, 3 October, 1921 – 15 March, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Ronald Langton-Jones, 5 September, 1922 – 18 June, 1923  (ship at Rosyth for detached service)
• Lieutenant-Commander Robert A. Cassidi, 10 July, 1924 – c. 20 August, 1924^[Inference]  (temporary, for Reserve Fleet Exercises)

Alterations

In 1916, she trialed a Wise Pressure Telegraphy System Type B for torpedo control.

See Also

• Wikipedia